Gravitational birefringence and an exotic formula for redshift
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2018-06-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We compute the birefringence of light in curved Robertson-Walker spacetimes and propose an exotic formula for redshift based on the internal structure of the spinning photon. We then use the Hubble diagram of supernovae to test this formula.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1802.09295,
title = {Gravitational birefringence and an exotic formula for redshift},
author = {Christian Duval and Johanna Pasquet and Thomas Schucker and Andre Tilquin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09295},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
16 pages, 2 figures, version 2 matches the published one